Dirt 4 release date announced

Codemasters' newest installement in the Rally Sim series

27 Jan 2017

Admittedly I was a little late to the party with rally sim games.

Sure, I've played a bit of Colin Mcrae on PS1 at a friends house. But I had no idea there could be such a depth and skill ceiling to the genre until I figured out family share on Steam and played the shit out of mikes copy of Dirt Rally. I was instantly hooked into the world of offroad racing and dead-set on throwing my Ford Escort MK II through roads ploughed in the waist-high snow in rural Sweden with pinprick pupils and sweaty palms desperate to shave half a second off my lap time. So you can imagine the excitement when Codemasters recently announced their working on Dirt 4!

About the game:

Motorsport by its very nature is dangerous - it says so on the back of the ticket. DiRT 4 is all about embracing that danger. It’s about the thrill, exhilaration and adrenaline that is absolutely vital to off-road racing. And more than that, it’s about loving that feeling. It’s about pushing flat out next to a sheer cliff drop. Going for the gap that’s slightly too small. Seeing how much air you can get in a truck. They call it ‘being fearless’.

DiRT 4 also features a game-changing system called Your Stage; an innovative rally route creation tool that allows you to produce an almost-infinite number of unique stages at the press of a button. You choose your location and set the route parameters, then Your Stage does the hard work to create a unique rally stage that you can race, share with your friends and then challenge them to beat your time. Your Stage allows experienced rally players to create longer, more technical routes, whilst newcomers can create simpler shorter routes as they hone their skills.

With DiRT 4, Codemasters have sought to combine the levels of thrill and realism from last year’s DiRT Rally with the fearless excitement, accessibility and adrenaline-fuelled races previously seen in its critically acclaimed prequels DiRT 2 and DiRT 3.

Featuring classic rally racing that continues to build on the foundations set by the Colin McRae Rally games, the bruising contests from the official FIA World Rallycross Championship, the crazy battles of racing trucks and buggies, and the outrageous fun of open events in Joyride, players will face challenges from locations that span three continents.

• DAMAGE & REPAIRS – Wear and tear is faithfully recreated with an improved and realistic damage model. Damage can be repaired by hiring Engineers to work in the team’s Service Area between stages but with a finite amount of time available.